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• The Aladygma files - english version

di Alessandro De Simone

We haven’t yet assimilate Cloverfield but just we have to think badly to the new JJ Abrams’ crazy project. It’s called Aladygma, but many guys call it Cloverfield 2. But how can we be sure?
Here in Alphabet City we grab our Sherlock Holmes costume to investigate about the messages that were released until this moment on the official site of this movie.

Until now there are only five links (to find them you need to do ‘select all’ on your browser).
On the home page we can read four couples of numbers: 00|11|22|88. If you click on the first link on the left, the sequence of numbers become 00|11|28|28.
If you click on the link on the right on top, the sequence of numbers become, with a line, "Student Thomas|Room 211". It’s the Thomas Dahlem’s room, if you want to know him better, you can visit his blog.

If you clik on the second link on the left, you can see on your screen a skull half face, apparently human, with the spine. On this drawing there are lines, measurement and letters. This is one of the Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawing from his studies about the soul localization. You also can easy find that ‘Aladygma’ is the anagram of Amygdala. If you want to know what Amygdala is, go to wikipedia.

Now we click on the two links on the bottom left. With the first, we can see a picture about a girl opening the door of the room number 211, probably Thomas’ girlfriend who is often quoted in his blog.

If you click on the second one, you can find a map of the NY underground, ripped and stomped by a shoe. The foot mark is dirty of blood. On the map you can read an address, 102 North End Avenue, and there’s a circle mark on the Chambers Street Station. The map is layed on the first page of a newspaper: it’s The New York Times and the date is September 12, 2001, the day after the Twin Towers attack.

Let’s try to give some sense to all this stuff.
Beginning with the sequences of numbers: probably we can opine the release date of the movie, maybe November 28, 2008.
But we can’t ignore the room 211, which is also on the picture with the girl. So, we are saying that the room could be at the Embassy Suites Hotel, at the address 102 North End Avenue, in Manhattan, a few meters from Chambers Street Station, which is the station before the World Trade Center.
And now talk about the New York Times first page. We checked The New York Times archives: yes, this is the real September 12, 2001 edition. The titles you can gather from the photo are identical to the real ones.

At this point we’re asking: how we can relate the monster in Cloverfield and the Twin Towers?

We’re still investigating…

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